[pptp-server] pptp crypting

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Justin Kreger wrote:

> IPSEC and PPTP are two diffrent protocols.  PPTP has NO encryption once so
> ever.

To complete the answer:

PPTP has no encryption whatsoever, but the PPP which is usually pushed
through it (by, for example, Microsoft's VPN client) has an
optional encryption layer (implemented as a compression plugin) called
MPPE.

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